A search for a wallaby in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania is over after the marsupial was captured by state game officials.A state game warden caught the animal on Wednesday in Mount Zion, south of Harrisburg. A resident spotted the wallaby and called the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The warden tranquilized the wallaby, and it was taken to a wildlife facility.The marsupial had been spotted over the last few days and everyone wanted to catch a glimpse."Each day I stop here on my way home just to look for it," Dave Berger told sister station WGAL.Game Warden Derek Spitler was looking for the animal in the hopes of catching it."We want to do it in the safest way possible, and we want to try to get that wallaby to a facility where it can be well taken care of," he said.Some people were worried the wallaby could get hit by a car, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission said a coyote could be a predator. But the wallaby mostly attracted humans."They have a lot of people coming out in the last couple of nights looking for this thing. So, people are interested in it," Spitler said. You can keep a wallaby in Pennsylvania with a permit. The game commission said no one in the area has a permit.
A search for a wallaby in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania is over after the marsupial was captured by state game officials.
A state game warden caught the animal on Wednesday in Mount Zion, south of Harrisburg. A resident spotted the wallaby and called the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The warden tranquilized the wallaby, and it was taken to a wildlife facility.
The marsupial had been spotted over the last few days and everyone wanted to catch a glimpse.
"Each day I stop here on my way home just to look for it," Dave Berger told sister station WGAL.
Game Warden Derek Spitler was looking for the animal in the hopes of catching it.
"We want to do it in the safest way possible, and we want to try to get that wallaby to a facility where it can be well taken care of," he said.
Some people were worried the wallaby could get hit by a car, and the Pennsylvania Game Commission said a coyote could be a predator. But the wallaby mostly attracted humans.
"They have a lot of people coming out in the last couple of nights looking for this thing. So, people are interested in it," Spitler said.
You can keep a wallaby in Pennsylvania with a permit. The game commission said no one in the area has a permit.
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